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17 unusual facts about Secretary of State


Alexander Stuart, 5th Earl of Moray

He was admitted Lord Justice General on 1 June 1675, appointed a Lord of the Treasury on 27 September 1678, nominated an Extraordinary Lord of Session on 17 July 1680, and on 2 November of the same year appointed Secretary of State in succession to the Duke of Lauderdale.

Canberra Pact

The prime ministers of New Zealand and Australia were subjected to a very demeaning dressing-down by Secretary of State Hull as a sign of American displeasure.

D'Ewes Coke

Coke's own family can be traced back to the 15th century and includes such notable figures as George Coke, a Bishop of Hereford just before the English Civil War, and Sir John Coke, Secretary of State to King Charles I.

Ed Vaizey

Edward Henry Butler Vaizey (born 5 June 1968) is the UK Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State post with responsibilities in both the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).

George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham

He was appointed a Secretary of State when the younger Pitt (who was his first cousin, being his father's sister's son) formed his Ministry in December 1783, but resigned only three days later.

Iain Wright

Iain David Wright (born 9 May 1972) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hartlepool since 2004, and was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State with responsibility for apprenticeships and 14-19 reform in the Department for Children, Schools and Families until 11 May 2010.

Ian Pearson

In Gordon Brown's next reshuffle of 3 October 2008, Pearson was moved to the Treasury as Economic Secretary, also becoming Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Economics and Business.

Jack Chow

Chow held a number of global public health offices including positions as the first Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, Special Representative of the U.S. Secretary of State on Global HIV/AIDS and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Health and Science.

James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater

Findlater was Solicitor General for Scotland from 1693, Lord Chancellor of Scotland from 1702 to 1704 and from 1705 to 1708, Secretary of State from 1696 to 1702 and joint secretary from 1704 to 1705.

John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl

Also in 1696, he became Secretary of State, and from 1696 to 1698 was Lord High Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland.

Ministry of Defence Police jurisdiction

Land where the Secretary of State has agreed to provide the services of the Ministry of Defence Police under an agreement notice of which has been published in the appropriate Gazette.

New Schools Network

The group was set up in 2009 by Rachel Wolf, a former adviser to Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, Secretary of State at the Department for Education.

Nick Baird

He then served from 1993-1997 as Private Secretary to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, then as head of the unit covering the EU Intergovernmental conference.

Nick Hurd

Hurd is currently Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Charities, Social Enterprise and Volunteering at the Cabinet Office in the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition Government.

Oliver Grace

Anne, married first, to Richard, eldest son of Sir Richard Nagle, Secretary of State for Ireland, temp. James II; married secondly, Edmond Butler, 8th Lord Dunboyne, and was mother of the 9th, 10th, and 12th lords

William Kerr, 1st Earl of Lothian

He was appointed secretary of state in 1649 and was one of the commissioners sent by the Scottish Parliament to protest against proceeding to extremities against the king.

William McKenzie, Baron McKenzie of Luton

William David McKenzie, Baron McKenzie of Luton (Bill McKenzie) (born 24 July 1946) is an English Labour politician and, up to the General Election of 2010, was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Work and Pensions and the Department for Communities and Local Government.


2007 Arab League Summit

Moreover, on the eve of the Riyadh summit, American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice persuaded Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Abbas to agree to meet on a regular basis, but Israel maintained its economic embargo on the Palestinian government and its military pressure in the territory of the Palestinian Authority.

563d Flying Training Squadron

The 563d was reactivated again in 1953 following Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' promise to provide NATO with four fighter wings.

Alma Birk

From 1974 to 1979 she was a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department of the Environment, and then became Minister of State in the Privy Council Office in 1979.

Ann McKechin

She replaced David Cairns as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Scotland Office on 16 September 2008.

Arab Communist Organization

The group focused mainly on bomb attacks and extortion attempts targeting American and British civilian and economic interests in Lebanon, at times claiming that its actions were either carried out in protest for US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's 1974 diplomatic Middle Eastern Tour or to force British-owned Lebanese companies to distribute freely large amounts of food to impoverished local families.

Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury

In 1694 he again became Secretary of State; but there is some evidence that as early as 1690, when he resigned, he had gone over to the Jacobites and was in correspondence with James at his court in exile at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, though it has been stated on the other hand that these relations were entered upon with William's connivance for reasons of policy.

David Bernier

On November 15, 2012, Governor-elect Alejandro García Padilla appointed Bernier to succeed Kenneth McClintock as Puerto Rico's 23rd Secretary of State, which also entails the role of lieutenant governor.

Davison Home

The Davison family includes hundreds of members living mostly in Texas but extending as far away as Puerto Rico, whose immediate past Secretary of State and Lieutenant Governor, Kenneth Davison McClintock is Frank B. Davison's great-grandson.

Earl of Gosford

He served as Solicitor General for Scotland, as a Senator of Justice (with the title Lord Glencairnie), as an Extraordinary Lord of Session and as Secretary of State for Scotland.

Electoral reform in Ohio

The head official in charge of voting procedures in the state of Ohio is the Secretary of State, a position that is currently held by Jennifer Brunner.

Eric D. Newsom

As a Foreign Service Officer, he served as Vice Consul in Montevideo, Uruguay; Special Assistant to the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom; on the staff of the Office of the Secretary of State; Special Assistant to the Director for nuclear policy issues in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs; and Deputy Director—for six months, Acting Director—of the Office of International Security Policy.

First National Bank of Charlotte

He served under the Confederacy during the Civil War, but he was pardoned by President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William Seward.

Havana Sugar Kings

However, the next year, Castro nationalized all U.S.-owned enterprises in Cuba, and on July 8, 1960, Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick (under pressure from U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter) announced that the Sugar Kings would be moving to Jersey City, New Jersey and be renamed the Jersey City Jerseys.

Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor

Their eldest son, Peter Brooke, also served as a Conservative Member of Parliament and Secretary of State, while their second son Sir Henry Brooke became a Lord Justice of Appeal.

Henry Ledyard

Henry Ledyard (March 5, 1812 – June 7, 1880) was the mayor of Detroit, Michigan and a state senator, briefly served as assistant secretary under Secretary of State Lewis Cass, and was the president of the Newport Hospital and the Redwood Library in Newport, Rhode Island.

History of the United States National Security Council

The NSC's Executive Secretary became an assistant to the President, but was sufficiently self-effacing not to conflict with a powerful Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles.

History of the United States National Security Council 1993–present

The President, Vice President, Secretary of State, and Secretary of Defense were members of the NSC as prescribed by statute.

History of Williamsburg, Virginia

At the end of the meeting, U.S. Secretary of State George P. Shultz read to the press a statement confirming the deployment of American Pershing II-nuclear rockets in West Germany later in 1983.

Jersey City Jerseys

However, the next year, Fidel Castro nationalized all U.S.-owned enterprises in Cuba, and on July 8, 1960, Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick (under pressure from U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter) announced that the Sugar Kings would be moving to Jersey City, New Jersey and be renamed the Jersey City Jerseys.

Jonathan Djanogly

Djanogly has been Trade and Industry Spokesman shadowing the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Shadow Solicitor General for England and Wales and was the Parliamentary Under-secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice from 2010–2012.

Joseph Duffey

Dr. Duffey was the former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (1977–1982), and former assistant Secretary of State for education and cultural affairs, and served as director of the United States Information Agency from 1993 to 1999.

Main Duck Island

In 1941, John Foster Dulles, the future secretary of state for Dwight D. Eisenhower, bought the island as a summer place.

Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth

The Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth (secretary of state) is the principal public information officer of the state government of the U.S. state of Massachusetts.

Minister of State for Communities and Local Government

His selection was not without controversy, as some speculated that Tony Blair had wanted to give David Blunkett the position as a Secretary of State, but this was opposed by Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott.

Munson Report

The Munson Report was circulated to several Cabinet officials, including Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, Attorney General Francis Biddle, and Secretary of State Cordell Hull.

New Zealand response to Hurricane Katrina

On 30 August 2005 NZST (29 August UTC-6/-5) Prime Minister Helen Clark sent condolences by phone and in a letter with an offer of help to United States President George W. Bush and Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff also sent a message of sympathy to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

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While at the Department of State, he was part of former Secretary of State Colin Powell's inner circle.

Oregon state elections, 2008

On November 4, 2008, the US state of Oregon held statewide general elections for three statewide offices (secretary of state, treasurer, and attorney general), both houses of the Oregon Legislative Assembly, and twelve state ballot measures.

Orion P. Howe

General Sherman wrote to Secretary of State William Stanton about Howe, and for his bravery President Abraham Lincoln appointed him to the United States Naval Academy in July 1865 because he was too young for West Point.

Private Secretary

In the United Kingdom government, a Private Secretary (with capital letters) is a civil servant in a Department or Ministry, responsible to the Secretary of State or Minister.

Reginald Hibbert

He was Minister at Bonn 1972–75; Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1975–76; Deputy Under-Secretary of State 1976–79; and finally Ambassador to France 1979–82.

Renewables Obligation

The Utilities Act 2000 gives the Secretary of State the power to require electricity suppliers to supply a certain proportion of their total sales in the United Kingdom from electricity generated from renewable sources.

Republican Party presidential primaries, 2008

With Vice President Dick Cheney choosing not to seek the nomination and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ruling herself out, the race for the 2008 presidential nomination was wide open.

Rick Upchurch

Upchurch dated and was briefly engaged to the former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in the 1970s.

Robert Spottiswood

When the Earl of Lanark, secretary of state, was apprehended in December 1643, the king gave the seals of office to Spottiswood at Oxford, and directed him to act as secretary.

Secretary of State of Arkansas

The Secretary of State of Arkansas is one of the elected constitutional officers of the U.S. state of Arkansas.

Skanderbeg's Order

Colin Powell, retired US General, former Secretary of State (decorated on 1 May 2003 by proposal of President Alfred Moisiu).

Theodore Achilles

From 1961 to 1962, he was special assistant to Secretary of State Rusk.

Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour

In 1632, after the death of his father George, (1579-1632), the first Lord Baltimore, and late loyal friend and Secretary of State, King Charles I renewed the grant originally made to his father, with the proprietorship of Maryland after an earlier unsuccessful colony of Avalon in Newfoundland.

U.S. Department of State Global Partnership Initiative

On April 22, 2009, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, told the Global Philanthropy Forum that “the State Department is opening its doors to a new generation of public-private partnerships” with foundations, businesses, non-governmental organizations, universities, and faith communities through her new Global Partnership Initiative.

William Grymes Pettus

His public service included Secretary of State in the Alexander McNair administration, Probate Judge of St. Louis County and in 1832 he was elected a member of the State Senate for St. Charles District.

Winning New Hampshire

Other appearances include Bill Gardner (the New Hampshire Secretary of State, U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy, Congressman Ed Markey, Vanessa Kerry and Martin Sheen.